As part of Objects at Play exhibition, join artist Malena Guerrieri for a once time only hands-on workshop to create your own football using 100% recycled Argentine leather sourced from the sample archives of her family’s tannery.
🗓️ Saturday, June 6th | 3 to 7pm
📍 67 West St., Studio 513
Drawing from her capsule La Caprichosa, this workshop transforms the football into a site of memory, craft, and transformation. Each ball is assembled from unused leathers in different colors and textures—materials that once belonged to an industrial history of Argentine production and are now reactivated through cutting, stitching, and hand assembly.
The result is a fully functional football N3 that exists between object and sculpture, carrying with it traces of a disappearing craft tradition, where handmade leatherwork and local manufacturing are increasingly rare.
NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! All materials included + drinks and bites.
Choose your colors, textures, and combinations, and create a one-of-a-kind piece—whether to play with, to keep, or to gift. A celebration of football, material memory, and the return to the handmade.
ARTIST BIO
Malena Guerrieri (b. 1988, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist based in Argentina. She holds an MA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, where she participated in the research project Forms of Life in collaboration with MUDAM Luxembourg.
In 2023, she curated The Antwerp Chair Collection, transforming discarded chairs into a collective exhibition and publication. That same year, she participated in the On Boards Biennale and TO BE ANTWERP.
Her recent solo exhibition, La Caprichosa in Buenos Aires, featured footballs made from discarded leather scraps. Her practice explores the creative potential of everyday objects and found materials, giving them renewed presence and second life.
